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Low Carbon Accelerator

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.47
Lead investments 3
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Oil and Gas
  • Manufacturing
  • Developer Tools
Summary

Low Carbon Accelerator is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Low Carbon Accelerator, startups are often financed by Volvo Group Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volvo Group Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Volvo Group Venture Capital, Ombu Group, Emerald Technology Ventures.

Opposing the other organizations, this Low Carbon Accelerator works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wind Energy, Developer Tools. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Open Energi, Lumenergi, Vaprema.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lumenergi

Energy
Energy Management
Lighting
$6M13 Mar 2012 California, United States

Vaprema

Chemical
Developer Tools
Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
$17M10 Dec 2008 Lévis, Quebec, Canada

Sterling Planet

Energy
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
28 Feb 2007 Norcross, Georgia, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 0.47
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lumenergi

Energy
Energy Management
Lighting
$6M13 Mar 2012 California, United States

Vaprema

Chemical
Developer Tools
Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
$17M10 Dec 2008 Lévis, Quebec, Canada

Sterling Planet

Energy
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
28 Feb 2007 Norcross, Georgia, United States
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